“Hey, I see that there’s more pain out there, folks!”
Three ouches yesterday.
The last two hurt more.
Mets grab the lead 1-0 in the 8th, then the pen yet again develops a bad cough, coughing up the lead with a big wad of phlegm and falling behind 2-1 in the 9th. A clean 9th would have beaten the arrival of the rain.
Now, the Marlins may have to play the Mets Monday to settle the Wild Card race.
Ouch. At least, it is supposed to be beautiful weather on Monday.
And one more game for Pete sitting at 46 HRs) to try for 50 homers would be a plus, if he is sitting at 48 or 49 after Sunday.
Ouches #2 and #3 are far more concerning.
#2: Jeff McNeil has a partially torn ACL in his left elbow. Our 3 least favorite letters. Done for the season, and Jeff expects no surgery and getting by on enriched plasma treatment. How it will affect his play in 2024, or for 2025-27, the other 3 years remaining on his deal? Who knows, but one thing you know is the injury won’t improve his hitting in 2024.
And if there were thoughts of trading Jeff, his market value just dropped. Ouch.
#3: Brandon Nimmo gets clean X ray of cranky AC shoulder joint in his right (throwing) shoulder. The man with seven years left on his contractual deal gets an MRI today. “Hopefully, nothing enduring here”, said David Wright and Yoenis Cespedes. Impact on 2024, or 2025-30, if any? TBD.
Ouch. Let’s hope he wakes up ache-free and plays this weekend.
CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN IT TO ME?
The Mets sold off a lot of guys and missed the Wild Card. OK, I get that.
What I don’t get is Seattle dealing off ex-Met Paul Sewald, who already has 13 saves for bullpen-weak Arizona, which as of today seems to have secured an NL wild card slot, much of that probably due to Sewald.
You can’t tell me that Seattle wouldn’t have loved him in their bullpen down the stretch, as they trail Houston by a mere one game in the Wild Card battle heading into the final weekend.
I’m baffled. If I was a Seattle fan, I’d be livid.
I think that, psychologically, the Stearns-led Mets need to figure out why players under-perform so much with the Mets. Sewald was a dreadful 1-14 as a Met, 18-9, 65 saves, tons of Ks, since. One of SO MANY examples.
ReplyDeleteI read that Seattle asked him to throw more fastball and ditch thee slider that used to flatten out too often.
DeleteStearns needs to approach the future as a 2 year plan not all or nuthin like they did this year
ReplyDeleteToo many holes
Bring in Yamamoto
Bring in either Soto or Ohtani
Secure both Otto and Robertson
Secure Raley
Good start
The Mets are set upto have a trenendous amount team controlled players, especially at the beginning of 2025.
ReplyDeleteHowever...
None of the 4 Baby Mets SO FAR are showinbg superstar material
My guess is Acuna, Williams, and Gilbert will produce more success than the Baby Mets
That gived them TWO infield possibilities and THREE in the outfield
I expect the baby Mets to perform better in 2024
ReplyDeleteGus. They fixed Sewald immediately, but got seemingly little for him. He’s been fine for AZ. I’d have delay Paul in the off-season if he is still under contract. Apparently, the Mariners gave up….traded Sewald…then got hot.
ReplyDeleteAcuna feels like 2025 to me. He was just .243/.317/.304 in 37 AA games after the trade. He might b a better fielding, much faster version of Ruben Tejada?
ReplyDeleteWilliams and Gilbert will be highly sought after this winter. Just say no.
You can’t judge Acuna just on his Binghamton AA stats. You have to look at his 84 games for Texas AA team Frisco. His complete year numbers are much better then the small sample size of his 37 games in Binghamton. He’s a much better player than Tejada. There’s a reason he’s ranked as our #1 or #2 prospect in almost every baseball prospect rankings.
DeleteExtra points for using the word"phlegm" in a baseball article
ReplyDeleteI accumulate extra points and spend them at Mack’s Mets, Apesquat.
ReplyDeleteMets have extensive history of not developing players.they said Alvarez wasn't a good defensive catcher, waited forever to move Mauricio around and didn't like the fact that he is a bad ball hitter,baty looks unsteady at third base. They played him in left in aaa and he looked passable.now they have him in left everything mode and he's all messed up. Finally sealed was an effective closer in aaa. Gets to majors but not even set up man. Multi inning middle guy. Terry even pitched him 5innings. A disaster that killed his confidence. New mgmt with complete minors and development overhaul has me excited
ReplyDeleteAnybody else think Vientos has the best season next year of our 4 Baby Mets? I’m thinking 240,25,75,something like that.
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